A young boy from Melbourne, Florida, grew his hair to over 10 inches, just so he could donate to charity.

In December 2012, Christian McPhilamy, age 6 at the time, and his mom, Deeanna Thomas, were looking up St. Jude's Children Research Hospital online when an ad for a hair donation charity popped up, according to ABC's "Today Show." The commercial worked.

"He said, 'I want to do that,'" Thomas told "Today." "I was blown away . . . I was pretty confident that he was actually going to follow through with it."

As McPhilamy's blonde hair got long, and then longer, people made comments.

"Even out and about or at a park, he would be playing with a bunch of boys and they'd be like, 'You look like a girl.' And he would just explain to them," Thomas said. "He held his head high and he never once said that he wanted to cut it off, ever."

Christine Wong, chief operations officer of Children With Hair Loss, a charity that provides free wigs to kids who have lost their hair for any number of reasons, estimates that only one in 50 donations to the organization comes from boys, according to the "Today." report said.

"It's definitely inspiring to see kids starting so young wanting to help and do good deeds," Wong said.